Obama Has Landed Only Soft Punches in Hard Times

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I don't agree! I didn't vote for Obama and wouldn't at this point. However, his most attractive attribute to me is his "even-keel temperament" and "turning the other cheek". If we want the focus in choosing our leaders to be on what they will do and have done, edginess and inflammability only get in the way. Passion for goodness and improvement, yes!, but not impatience or irrationality.

clarinetviola of MI 1:49PM November 03, 2010

Why would reasonable citizens find lthe President out of touch? Would we all feel better about ourselves and our country if he were in a panic and fluttering from problem> It seems to me that he has been a steady rock in a whirl pool of resentment, lies, panic, and refusal to offer anything more than "NO!" to most of what he has tried to do to keep this nation from going down the sewers in the economic mess he inherited.
I don't know if he has all the answers. I didn't vote for him with that assumption; but he, at least, tried to halt the mess from getting any worse. Does anyone with intelligence truly expect that a fiasco eight years in the making can possibly be cleaned up, straightened out or corrected in less than 24 months?
Serious debate of vital issues has been replaced with politically-motivated obstruction. With the Republican victories yesterday 'putting the shoe on the other foot', we'll see how long they take to cry foul to any opposition from the other side of the aisle.

Joy Heiens of OH 10:23AM November 03, 2010

The more I read this the more I realize how arrogant and out of touch the writer is.
“A true believer in sweet reason and artful persuasion, Obama may be too much of a consensus seeker in an age of historically high anxiety and fear.”. She writes this about the person who called Republicans the enemy. That is not the language of a consensus seeker. Now my question is when the Republican take over Congress and they propose bills that Obama vetoes, will you still call him a consensus seeker?, will you call him the president of no?
He has had a majority in both houses until possibly today. It is not the Republicans that have keep him from totally turning this country into a European style socialist country; it is his own party that has come to realize what a disaster he is. Concerning his general, with Lincoln it was because his general dillydallied as you call it, with Obama, it was Obama that dillydallied, and could not make a decision. And Obama does not have the American people’s back as you say, when he should have been concentrating on the economy, he was getting the disastrous Obamacare passed, that now about 55% of the people want scaled back or totally repealed.

kewaal of GA 11:15AM November 02, 2010

I am sorry are you talking about the community organizer in chief we have now, who never misses a chance to insult Republicans, with remarks such as ” We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."? The guy who said pass the stimulus to keep unemployment from going over 8.5%, the guy who said pass Obamacare and the average family will see a $2500 reduction in medical costs, and of course now we know we will be lucky if the increase is only $2500. The guy who’s spending made George Bush look like a miser? You really don’t get it, he has explained everything well, it that the American people now realize they don’t want what he is selling. I realize all of the liberal commentators just can’t believe that we mere mortals actually can think for ourselves and do not need the all knowing all wise Obama and Pelosi to tell us what we think, no matter how many times he and people like you insult us. Now that the American people actually know what he is, polls have shown that 60 to 65% of the people think more like Sarah Palin than Obama. Once again something liberal commentators such as you just can’t image. One more time, it is not that Obama hasn’t told us enough how wonderful he is, and has not that he has not tried to sell us on his policies, we just do not want he is selling!
Now the elections Tuesday are not approval of the job the Republicans have done in the past, they will be watched closely, but this election is about the absolute rejection of Obama’s policies.

kewaal of GA 11:38PM November 01, 2010

How quickly we forget. This 85 year old fought against Germany in WW II -- In fact I was a liberator of the first concentration camp! And . . . the German people loved their Hitler -- and what did they do? Being a "good" German was agreeing that being of another "group" was cause for extermination!
What has bothered me all these past 65 years -- yes it has been that long,
is that the above FACT -- and I use that term deliberately -- is that this fact is not taught here in the U.S. school classes about what happened before and during WW II! Think about that for a moment or two! I survived one "hit" and ultimately left Army service when the war ended! There was compensation --- we had the G.I. Bill --- paid for a good college education -- became a surgeon -- now long retired from the operating table! But do think about it! One does not have to be a member of the mob! R.M. Frank -- M.D.

Robert Frank M.D. of CA 4:36PM November 01, 2010